A forum on increasing the number of African-American men with college degrees will be held Monday (March 10) from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Dillard University. The Louisiana Summit on Black Male Success in Higher Education, which will be in Georges Auditorium in the Professional Schools and Sciences Building, will be fee and open to the public.

"This is an important topic for me," Dillard President Walter Kimbrough said. "I've looked at the numbers, and while the national numbers are grim, Louisiana's are worse."

According to the National Center for Education Statistics' Digest of Educational Statistics, 35.2 percent of African-American men earn undergraduate degrees in six years. The Louisiana rate is 20.6 percent.